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Stavro honoured by Horse Racing HOF 5/23/2006 3:06:12 PM TORONTO (CP) - The late Steve Stavro is among this year's 11 inductees to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. Stavro, who died at age 78 last month, will be inducted in the builders' category, the Hall announced Tuesday. He will join four standardbreds, two thoroughbreds, trainers James E. Day and David C. Cross Jr., plus driver/trainers Doug Brown and Jacques Hebert. Stavro, the one-time majority owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Raptors, owned a relatively small but highly successful racing and breeding operation that produced numerous champions for Knob Hill Stable. In 1992 Stavro won two Sovereign Awards as Canada's leading owner and breeder. His horses earned six Sovereign Awards. Thornfield and Benburb each were voted Canada's Horse of the Year. Stavro, who first got into racing in 1967, also served on the board of trustees of the Ontario Jockey Club, the Jockey Club of Canada and was an honorary director of Woodbine Entertainment Group. The standardbred horse inductees are Armbro Emerson, As Promised and Run The Table along with the brilliant race filly Armbro Feather. All enjoyed outstanding careers on the racetrack as well as in the breeding shed. Stallion Bold Ruckus and filly Lauries Dancer, a multiple graded stakes winner in the U.S. and Canada's Horse of the Year in 1971, are the two thoroughbred inductees. All inductees except Armbro Emerson and Cross, who were elected by the 12-member veterans' committee, were voted in by the two 16-member election committees. Successful inductees needed a minimum of 75 per cent of the balloting. The induction ceremonies will be held on Aug. 24 at the Mississauga Convention Centre. Day saddled Dance Smartly, who won Canada's Triple Crown, Queen's Plate winner Regal Intention, Eclipse Award winner Sky Classic and five Horse of the Year champions - Dauphin Fabuleux, Imperial Choice, Ruling Angel, Peaks and Valleys and Dance Smartly. Day won more than 1,100 races and was Canada's leading trainer four times. Cross was born in Vancouver and was a jockey before saddling his first winner in 1957. He later achieved national acclaim with Sunny's Halo, a Canadian-bred colt that won the 1983 Kentucky Derby. For many years Brown dominated the Canadian driving charts and was the Ontario Jockey Club's leading dash-winning driver from 1988 to 1997. The native of Bowmanville, Ont., earned 8,115 wins and more than $86 million. Hebert, from Drummondville, Que., has 5,802 wins and trained 1,010 winners while based in Montreal. His top stakes horses were Garland Lobell and Strike Out. Bold Ruckus was Canada's leading sire for 10 straight years while standing at Park Stud in Caledon, Ont. Bold Ruckus sired 62 stakes winners, including champions Bold Ruritana, King Ruckus and King Corrie. Lauries Dancer, one of Northern Dancer's daughters, competed against the best fillies in North America in 1971, a year in which she won the Alabama Stakes, the Delaware Oaks, Canadian Oaks, Bison City and Star Shoot Stakes. Armbro Feather was a multiple world champion pacer, earning more than $1.4 million and capturing the Rose Are Red Stakes, Jugette, Breeders Crown and an O'Brien Award as Canada's Older Pacing Mare in 1989. As Promised, a son of Abercrombie, was a multiple stakes champion with 71 victories. He sired winners of almost $14 million. Run The Table was a major stakes winner in all three years of his racing career but his notoriety was a formidable stallion in the 1990s. His offspring earned more than $86 million and include Jays Table, Rabbi of Racing, Run To The Bank, Elegant Killean, Ryancoke, Heatherjeankillean and Cathedra. Armbro Emerson influenced his sport as a million-dollar winning racehorse; as a multi-million dollar producing sire and as a broodmare sire.